CampHill Trip
20 young people and the participation worker went to the Yorkshire Dales Ariel Extreme activity centre for a day of team building and fun! This was a reward for CICC members and future members for all the CICC's hard work and dedication over the last 6 months. Here we share a photo of the day!

"The Children in Care Council is well established and its members are very active in addressing issues about the quality of their care, education and wellbeing." Ofsted Reporting inspector 2011

"Wakefield values its young people and it has put systems in place to listen to them. Wakefield does a lot - other authorities don't have Participation as high on the agenda." Lilac Report 2010

What this means to us...
- We can demonstrate that the work we do as part of CICC is making a difference to individuals and making improvements to services

What it means to young people...
They are proud that the work they have done has been rewarded nationally and motivates CICC to keep up the good work and identify the next challenges! 2 CICC reps became regional assessors too.

Also...
We re-established Make a Difference Group enabling looked after children and young people to meet with elected members on projects.

Launch of the 'Me and My Review Project' involving lots of consultation events planned with CICC reps - with the aim of improving reviews by making them more child focused.

CICC welcomed the Corporate Director to her first CICC meeting for a questions and answer time around care issues.

We developed this further by offering training as part of the 'newly elected members safeguarding seminars' as indentified in the Ofsted inspection...
"Children in Care Council (CICC) meet regularly and also has direct access to very responsive elected members"
We are now working on a programme to train members of the Wakefield District Safeguarding Board

There is a brand new rights4children website developed with and for children and young people living in
institutional settings, including childrenís homes, secure units and
residential schools. Find out your rights. Itís packed with
information children and young people told us is important to them.

Build Our Futures In May 2018, CICC and an extended group of young people looked at re-naming the Wakefield CICC. The clear winning name was Build our Futures. Well done to our 13 plus team for coming up with such a positive, vibrant and catchy name! We will be working with designers over the summer months to create a new logo, all ready to launch in September 2018! Watch this space...